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LinuxPR: Bangalore Linux User Group announces LINUX BANGALORE/2002

Bangalore, August 25th, 2002: The Bangalore Linux User Group
today announced that India's premier Linux and Opensource event -
Linux Bangalore/2002 - will be held on December 3-5, 2002, in
Bangalore, India.

LB/2002 follows the unquestioned success of last year's event
(Linux Bangalore/2001), which saw the participation of thousands of
particpants, attending more than 60 talks by both Indian and
foreign speakers.

The event will again feature numerous talks, workshops and panel
discussions, exposing developers, users, corporate IT decision
makers and government agencies to the lates in Linux and OpenSource
based technologies and developments.

Speakers are drawn from the industry as well as the development
community from across India and abroad.

The BLUG announced that, in addition to the technical and
orientational talks, the event will this year include an exhibition
to allow organisations to present Linux and OpenSource based
solutions.

BLUG coordinator Kingsly John said that the entire event was
conceived and managed by a group of managers drawn from the
BLUG.

The event would be funded by sponsors. "We will be approaching
giants such as HP, IBM, Wipro, Infosys and the Tatas, who, like a
majority of the industry today, have an extremely heavy involvement
with Linux" said BLUG advisor Atul Chitnis. Last year's event
received unprecedented sponsor interest from HP ISO, who funded the
entire event.